1st Edition

Developing Standards in Research on Science Education The ESERA Summer School 2004

Edited By Fischer Hans E Copyright 2005
260 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

260 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Ph.D. students from 14 European countries, Israel, Turkey and Venezuela in addition to supervisors and lecturers from 11 countries including Israel and USA worked for one week to understand each other with the goal of improving and sharpening features of their respective theoretical backgrounds, research questions, and design and methodological demands. The projects presented reflect a multitude... Read more

Preface

Staff members

Topics include:

  • Towards science education research that is relevant for improving practice: The model of educational reconstruction
  • Computer assisted hands-on laboratories activities: Design, development and evaluation of instructional software for science teachers education
  • Discourse Analysis in University Physics Class. Implications for Improvement of Educational Practice
  • Assessing characteristics of teacher and student actions during instructional talks in primary science classrooms by means of video-analysis
  • The process of teachers’ planning and implementation of school visits to science and technology museums
  • Young people’s perspectives on genetics, identity and society using film and discussion
  • Learning with simulations and their effect on problem solving in the domain of physics
  • Designing and evaluating a research-based teaching-learning sequence on the moment of force
  • Meaningful learning of models and modelling in chemistry education by adapting authentic practices
  • Textcoherence and self-explanation in learning physics with multimedia
  • A Multimodal analysis of physics explanations

Author index

Biography

Fischer Hans E